Master of planetary succession

As a master of the planet sequence or master of the planet series one is plaque artist indicated that around 1550 in Nuremberg worked. The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name from small high reliefs made of lead, which depict allegories of the planets Saturn, Mercury and Mars. These can be found in the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin .

Works (selection)

The planet Saturn (round high relief, lead)
The planet Mercury (round high relief, lead)
The planet Mars [?] (Round high relief, lead)
Hercules and Antaeus (round high relief, lead)
Hercules with the Nemean lion (round high relief, lead)

The engraver , who was called the “master of the planetary sequence”, was active in the 15th century according to the Nuremberg artist lexicon. Possibly this is the artist known as the “master of the planetary sequence of the house book”, who was one of the masters of the house book as a draftsman, etcher and engraver .

According to Ernst Friedrich Bange, the plaque artist was only active in Nuremberg in the second half of the 16th century.

literature

Ernst Friedrich Bange : The sculptures of the German Museum. Volume 2: The sculptures in bronze and in other metals, works in mother-of-pearl and wax, cut stones. Berlin / Leipzig 1923, p. 111.
Master of planetary succession . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Ernst Friedrich Bange : The pictures of the Deutsches Museum. Volume 2: The sculptures in bronze and in other metals, works in mother-of-pearl and wax, cut stones. Berlin, Leipzig 1923, p. 111, no. 5849-5853, images on plate 21 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars. Munich 2007, p. 999 ( books.google.de ) "Master of the planetary sequence, copperplate engraver, active in the 15th century."

personal data
SURNAME	Master of planetary succession
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Master of the Planetary Series
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German plaque artist of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH	16th Century
DATE OF DEATH	16th Century

[Bange-1] A ^b Ernst Friedrich Bange : The pictures of the Deutsches Museum. Volume 2: The sculptures in bronze and in other metals, works in mother-of-pearl and wax, cut stones. Berlin, Leipzig 1923, p. 111, no. 5849-5853, images on plate 21 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars. Munich 2007, p. 999 ( books.google.de ) "Master of the planetary sequence, copperplate engraver, active in the 15th century."